Rajasthan Quiz: Economy, Budget and Major Schemes of Rajasthan

Pearl millet needs little water and stands high temperature, which suits the sandy soils of western Rajasthan, and the state leads the country in its production; it is grown as a kharif crop in Barmer, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Nagaur and Jodhpur and eaten as the staple bread of the region.

Mustard is the leading rabi oilseed of the state, grown with light irrigation in Bharatpur, Alwar, Sawai Madhopur, Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh, and Rajasthan has long been the largest producer in the country; the oilseed trade of Bharatpur and the many oil mills of the eastern districts rest on it.

Rampura Agucha is the state's best known lead and zinc deposit and one of the largest zinc producing mines in the world; Rajasthan is the only state in India that supplies lead and zinc concentrates, the other mines being Zawar near Udaipur, the oldest of them, and Rajpura Dariba.

The Khetri belt, with the nearby Kolihan mine, is the chief source of copper in Rajasthan and one of the main copper areas of India, worked by Hindustan Copper Limited; the ore is smelted and refined in the same region.

Makrana supplies the fine white marble used in the Taj Mahal and in the Victoria Memorial, and its quarries were recognised as a global heritage stone resource; marble is also cut at Kishangarh in Ajmer district, the largest marble market of the country.

The Mangala field, found in 2004 in the Barmer basin, with Bhagyam and Aishwariya nearby, made Rajasthan an oil producing state, and the crude is carried by a heated pipeline to the Gujarat coast; a refinery is being built at Pachpadra in the same district.

Rawatbhata stands on the Chambal, near the Rana Pratap Sagar dam, within Chittorgarh district, though the station is often described as being near Kota because that is the larger city close by, and that is exactly the trap in this question.

Jhamarkotra is the largest rock phosphate deposit worked in India and supplies the raw material for phosphatic fertiliser, which is why the country's dependence on imported phosphate is reduced by it; the mine is run by Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals Limited.

The campaign took up village level works such as check dams, anicuts, farm ponds, contour trenches and the repair of old tanks, with the aim of making each village self-reliant in water, and it was carried out in phases in selected panchayats of every district.

Bhilwara grew into the largest centre of synthetic yarn, suiting and shirting in Rajasthan and is commonly called the textile city or the Manchester of Rajasthan; the same district also holds the Rampura Agucha zinc mine.